Moneta
Registered: August 2005
Location: Arizona USA
Posts: 2,365
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Czechoslovakia Socialist Republic celebrates the 100th Year since the birth of Vladimir I Ulyanov [Lenin 1870 -1970]. This year saw the reduction in size of the 50 Korun silver coin. Only 44k were minted in Unc. with 6.6k minted in proof, some (451) were later melted. Obverse is the socialist Lion.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed political theories known as Leninism.
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![ss780880.jpg](data/500/thumbs/ss780880.jpg ""ADVENTVI AVG FELICISSIMO"")
